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Dr. Edward (Ted) Elliot Eulogy, John Owens

John Owens: Speeches and Appearances

Kathy and Susie, members of the faculty, and staff of the School of Natural Resource Sciences, ladies and gentlemen.
There are some things in this world that, try as we may, just cannot be adequately accomplished. One of those things, for me at least, is to express adequately what I feel about the passing of Dr. Edward (Ted) Elliot.
Ted came to this University of Nebraska a few months before I arrived, and it was my distinct honor to count him among my friends at this great University. Ted was a man of exceptional scientific standing and wisdom, and his …

Cropwatch No. 2002-14, June 21, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Management tips……….128

Field updates……….……….128

Cultivation costs/benefits……….……….130

Water tour program……….……….132

Potato leafhopper alert……….……….133

Herbicide rescues……….……….134

EPA and drift label ……….……….135

Assessing hail damage……….……….136

Cropwatch

Subscription sale……….……….136

Countering greensnap……….……….136

Sorghum Research Meeting, John Owens

John Owens: Speeches and Appearances

It is my pleasure to welcome you to East Campus this morning, and I thank you for inviting me to be here with you. I am pleased that we have this opportunity to come together to exchange information and ideas, to update on what's happening now, and to look to the future. It is important that we make and take advantage of such opportunities to communicate with each other, to learn each others' views, and to work with each other toward our common goals. I want to personally thank the people who have worked to organize this meeting and to …

Roundtable Series On Innovative Approaches To Land Conservation And Smart Growth, New England Environmental Finance Center

Smart Growth

A series of six roundtable discussions was conducted by the New England Environmental Finance Center (NE/EFC) from January through May 2002, one in each New England state. The objectives of the series were to consolidate expertise in financing and coordinating projects that combine conservation and development on the landscape, and to identify key areas of unmet need that could be addressed by the NE/EFC. Each discussion entailed several case study presentations and facilitated discussion about what works, what doesn’t work, and what might work in financing and coordinating efforts that combine conservation and development. Key areas of opportunity that emerged …

Soil Groups Of Western Australia: A Simple Guide To The Main Soils Of Western Australia (3rd Edn), Noel Schoknecht

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.

Developing An Environmental Management System (Ems) For Viticulture, Catherine Nind

Agriculture reports

This guidebook outlines one approach that may be used to develop an Environmental Management System (EMS) for a vineyard. The system described in this guidebook facilitates a continual improvement in environmental management and can be used to demonstrate a commitment to responsible land management. The system is generally consistent with the requirements of ISO 14001: the internationally accepted standard for an EMS.

Nebline, June 2002

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

NFBA Helps Producers Analyze Their Farming Business
Local Grower Turns to Barley Straw as an Alternative Crop
Propagation of Shrubs from Softwood Cuttings
Bindweed Season is Here
Night Blooming Flowers Offer Evening Enjoyment
2002 June/July Garden Calendar
See a Roach? Identify it Before you Spray
EQIP Works With Producers to Conserve Natural Resources
Are Carpenter Ants Killing My Trees?
EPA Urges Caution When Using Disinfectants in Ducts
Controlling Algae in Ponds and Lakes
Pesticide Container Recycling
Sample Your Hay to Get Accurate Nutrient Analyses
Wildflowers and Native Plants
Some Wood Mulches Can Encourage Turf Mushrooms
Control of Smooth Sumac
Check …

Ard News June 2002

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
Comments from the Dean
ARD Advisory Council
ESCOP/ ACOP Leadership Development Program
ARD Advisory Council Election Results
ARD Interdisciplinary Research Grants Program
Layman Awards
New or Revised Projects
Grants and Contracts Received March, April and May, 2002
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants
Writing Clear and Understandable Competitive Grant Proposals
Research Grant and Contract Income During the Last Four Calendar Years Expressed an Dollars per Research FTE Basis
Highlights of the 2002 Farm Bill
Adaption of Biotechnology Enhanced Craps in Selected Cornbelt States

Invest For Success - Investing In Agriculture In The South West Irrigation Area, Caroline Hatherly, Janet Mccreddin, Georgia Thomas

Farm Systems and Economics published reports

For the South West Irrigation Area to grow and prosper, it is essential that information be gathered and shared, the region promoted, and water used efficiently. The INTERACT project has been developed to do just that and will be a driver for agricultural development into the future.

" Once SWI just delivered water; now it is helping its irrigation industries to grow." Vision statement, South West Irrigation

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 2001-02 25th Year Edition, Bruce Johnson, Lance Kuenning

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

In this silver anniversary edition, we provide a 25-year perspective of Nebraska's agricultural real estate market as well as analyzing the market dynamics of recent months.

Despite being a market of very limited turnover rates of ownership as well as rental leases, the market for agricultural real estate is still very dynamic. This is very obvious in the past 25 years during which agricultural land values in Nebraska experienced both "boom" and "bust" conditions before developing a more steady-to-gradually-upward trend more recently. Average 2002 levels of values in nominal terms are essentially in the same range as those of the …

Extended Visions May-June 2002

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

No abstract provided.

Soil Survey Of Magenta Catchment - Taidia Road, Jerramungup, Henry Smolinski

All other publications

This report identifies the major soil types within the Lake Magenta Catchment and provides soil physical and chemical data relevant to catchment hydrology and land use. The catchment contains part of the Lake Magenta Nature Reserve and four adjoining farms that together have a total area of 9940 hectares. The head of the catchment is situated on a major drainage divide associated with the Fitzgerald and Gardiner River drainage systems. Runoff from the catchment converges into a first order stream of the Fitzgerald River. Vegetation is predominantly mallee shrubland with Proteacea shrubland and heath associated with valley floors and drainage …

Arkansas Agriculture Situation And Outlook 2002, Bruce L. Ahrendsen, Eric J. Wailes, Bruce L. Dixon, Michael Popp, Pat Manning, Tony E. Windham

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series

Many farmers in Arkansas and other parts of the United States are experiencing financial stress. The purpose of this special report is to highlight the situation of Arkansas farmers and to offer an outlook for 2002. The report emphasizes the production, price, income, policy, financial, farmland value, and interest rate outlook for Arkansas farmers and considers the impact of the macro economy on agriculture. In addition, a summary of commercial rowcrop farm characteristics and production practices is presented.

Total Grazing Management Field Guide Self-Mustering Systems For Cattle, Sheep And Goats, C Underwood

Bulletins 4000 -

Total grazing management (TGM) systems were designed to assist producers in the Western Australian rangelands to improve station productivity.TGM systems can increase the profits of pastoral properties by improving management control over grazing animals and by decreasing operating costs.

Over 1000 TGM yards have been put on the ground in the southern rangelands.The majority of these are sheep and goat systems, though an increasing number of cattle systems, and cattle, sheep and goat systems are being built.

This booklet is a practical guide to the types of TGM selfmustering systems available. It is designed to be used as a planning …

Turfgrass Water Use In Utah, Robert W. Hill, Kelly L. Kopp

All Current Publications

The goal of turfgrass irrigation is to maintain quality by replacing water lost to the atmosphere from the soil by evaporation, and from leaf surfaces by transpiration. The combination of evaporation and transpiration is referred to as evapotranspiration (Et), or simply water use.

Cropwatch No. 2002-11, May 24,2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Management tips…………..98

Field updates…………..98

Grasshoppers early…………..99

Stalk borer scouting…………..100

Wind limits on pesticide application…………..103

Growth regulators…………..104

Differing glyphosates…………..105

Wheat diseases active…………..106

Cropwatch No. 2002-12, May 23, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Field updates…………….112

Cutworms in crops…………….112

Resistant RWA alert…………….112

Grasshopper survey…………….114

Common stalk borer…………….114

Stressed winter wheat…………….115

Selling CRP land…………….116

CRP signup extended…………….116

Tick & fly alert…………….117

Groundwater levels drop…………….118

Long-term drought cycles…………….119

On-line weather data…………….120

Cropwatch No. 2002-10, May 17, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Management tips……………88

Field updates……………88

New publications……………88

Ag profitability……………91

U.S. Wheat supply……………91

Lawn tip……………91

Farmers test planter speed……………92

Plant uniformity……………94

Irrigation system tune-up……………94

Tillage & uniformity……………95

Testing stands……………96

School Of Natural Resource Sciences, John Owens

John Owens: Speeches and Appearances

Good afternoon. Thank you for asking me to be with you today; I welcome this opportunity to talk with you, to hear what you're thinking, and to participate with you in an exchange of ideas.

I've been asked to make some prepared remarks this afternoon, and when those are ended I welcome your ideas, your questions, and your comments. I look forward to more discussions with you at other times, as well. I do have open hours Friday afternoons, and encourage faculty and staff to stop by to visit, to share an idea, to ask a question, or to just …

Cropwatch No. 2002-9, May 10, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Management tips…………..78

Field updates…………..78

Chill expected…………..80

Pesticide container recycling & sites…………..82

Assessing alfalfa frost…………..83

Diseases in alfalfa…………..84

Inoculating alfalfa…………..84

Wheat diseases…………..85

Alfalfa weevil scouting…………..85

Readers report on RR…………..86

Apc Hearings, John Owens

John Owens: Speeches and Appearances

Members of the Academic Planning Committee, and others here today, it is my responsibility to speak with you about the budget cuts we are recommending in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. This is a difficult task, because I must speak for cuts that I would prefer not to make, cuts I know are opposed by constituents and colleagues whom I hold in high regard, cuts imposed upon us because of the current status of the Nebraska economy.

Cropwatch No. 2002-8, May 3, 2002, Lisa Brown Jasa

Crop Watch (1994–2005)

Inside

Management tips……………70

Field updates……………70

Weed control in sorghum……………73

Weed control in pastures and range……………74

Pesticide and fertilizer security……………75

Pest management resources……………75

Weed Science Field Days……………76

Alfalfa weevil scouting……………76

Delay pasture grazing……………76

Tenure, John Owens

John Owens: Speeches and Appearances

Tenure is not easy to get. It is not, as one journalist puts it, a smooth rail for the gravy train. It is a long and challenging road ... Evaluation of the candidate for tenure is serious and thorough. Hours and days are spent reading and reviewing research contributions. Teaching is reviewed extensively ... The basic reason tenure is bestowed is to preserve freedom for highly trained and capable people to do their best work, to protect them from inappropriate political pressures ... Evaluation does not cease with tenure. Tenured faculty are reviewed at mandated intervals and also annually to …

Water-Wise Landscaping, Kelly L. Kopp, Teresa Cerny, Rick Hefelbower

CWEL Extension Fact Sheets

A water-wise landscape is one that is functional, attractive, and easily maintained in its natural surroundings. A water-wise landscape also helps to conserve water. If you live in Utah, you have undoubtedly heard that Utah is one of the driest states in the nation, second only to Nevada. This fact, along with our relatively high level of water consumption and our population growth, has brought water conservation to the forefront of those natural resource issues currently facing the state. In Utah, approximately 65% of our annual culinary water consumption is applied to landscapes. Our irrigated landscapes provide us with many …

Evaluation Of The Persistence Of Grazing Alfalfa Varieties, Maria Stiles

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The use of alfalfa (Medicago scitiva L.) for grazing is becoming more common. Alfalfa is the most widely planted legume, and is one of the most nutritional forage crops available. It is proposed that alfalfa was cultivated 4000 to 5000 years ago and produces the most protein per acre of any forage crop. Live weight gains for beef cattle grazing alfalfa average 230 to 360 kg ha-1. There is no cheaper way to harvest and utilize alfalfa than for the animal to harvest it directly. Most of the commercially available alfalfa varieties, however, were developed for hay production and thus …

Characterization Of Fro1, A Pea Ferric-Chelate Reductase Involved In Root Iron Acquisition, Brian M. Waters, Dale G. Blevins, David J. Eide

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

To acquire iron, many plant species reduce soil Fe(III) to Fe(II) by Fe(III)-chelate reductases embedded in the plasma membrane of root epidermal cells. The reduced product is then taken up by Fe(II) transporter proteins. These activities are induced under Fe deficiency. We describe here the FRO₁ gene from pea (Pisum sativum), which encodes an Fe(III)-chelate reductase. Consistent with this proposed role, FRO₁ shows similarity to other oxidoreductase proteins, and expression of FRO₁ in yeast conferred increased Fe(III)-chelate reductase activity. Furthermore, FRO₁ mRNA levels in plants correlated with Fe(III)-chelate reductase activity. Sites of FRO_{1 …}

Accumulation Of Microbial Biomass Within Particulate Organic Matter Of Aging Golf Greens, Mine Kerek, Rhae A. Drijber, William L. Powers, Robert C. Shearman, Roch E. Gaussoin, Anne Streich

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Microbial biomass (MB) is a key variable controlling soil organic matter dynamics in soil. Currently, there is little information on the amount and significance of MB in highly managed golf greens. Our objective was to determine the amount and distribution of MB within soil structural components of golf greens and its relationship to the location of organic substrates. During 1996, 47 greens were sampled from 12 golf courses within Nebraska (USA). Microbial biomass, determined as extractable lipid phosphate on field-moist soils, increased linearly with age of green (Y = 19.39 + 3.54x; r² = 0.87, P = 0.001). In …

Nebline, May 2002

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Farmers Learn About Biosolids!
2002 All-America Rose Selections
Walnut Caterpillar
Basil for Your Garden
Annual Vines in the Landscape
2002 May/June Garden Calendar
Ant Problems? Try a Baiting Approach
Workshop: Everything Homeowners Need to Know About Termite Control
2002 Household Hazardous Waste Collections
Backyard Wildlife: To Feed a Hummingbird
Cattail Control in Sewage Lagoons
Pesticide Disposal Program a Success
Storage Methods to Reduce Hay Losses
Latest U.S. Drought Monitor Map
Annual Observed Precipitation – Lincoln, NE (in inches, 1887-2001)
Herbicide Application
Maintain Drainfield for Long-Term Septic System Use
Controlling Dandelions
New Test For Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease and Tick Management …

Profitable And Productive Farming Systems For Management Of Nolba Catchment, B R. Eastough, Nolba Focus Catchment Group

Resource management technical reports

Summary of the main points covered at each of the several workshop and two demonstrations by the Nolba Catchment Group, Western Australia. The areas addressed include: low recharge farming systems; impact on the environment of integrated weed management; management of organic matter in soils within the catchment; dune stabilisation and groundwater hydrology.

Bioavailability/Toxicity Of Iron From Aerobically Processed Organic Fertilizer, Stacey Marie Wilson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

For an undergraduate Honor's project, I worked under the direction of Dr. Jeffery Hall to determine the bioavailability and toxicity of iron from Milorganite® fertilizer, an aerobically processed organic fertilizer. The Milorganite® Company is a subsidiary of the Milwaukee Municipal Sewage District and produces a fertilizer of high iron content (approximately 5-7%). The high iron content has resulted in concern about the toxic potential, which until now was unknown. This thesis paper will explain iron chemistry, bioavailability, requirements, absorption, toxicity, and treatments, followed by a description of fertilizer types and contents. This will be followed by a description and reasoning …